I have a couple of Dell laptops -- an older (Precision M4800) and a newer (Precision 7520) on which I've been tracking FreeBSD stable/12, head, and (lately) stable/13 (with a daily cadence). I also update installed ports on each every day. Each uses x11/nvidia-driver for graphics.
Each runs FreeBSD itself ... well. And I recently found out that the mouse/touchpad on the 7520 now works under head and stable/13 (by loading the iichid.ko kernel module, as the device communicates over I2C). (I tried the sysutils/iichid port under stable/12, but have not been able to get the mouse to work yet under stable/12.) And suspend/resume works... under stable/12, where I have been using kern.vty="sc" (in /boot/loader.conf). (I recall having tried letting kern.vty default to "vt" -- that seems to cause resume to fail: the screen never lights up again, nor can I ssh into the laptop. Yes, I configured the laptops to be able to ssh into them for various reasons -- such as testing suspend/resume.) In order to test some recent (vbe-related) loader changes, however, I needed to change kern.vty back to the default value of "vt" -- and that appears to cause resume to fail (still). How may I help figure out what's wrong? The newer (7520) laptop, in particular, is idle most of the day, so experimenting with it should be OK. Thanks! Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill da...@catwhisker.org It is supremely disingenuous to claim a lack of jurisdiction, then proceed to participate in a decision on the same matter. See https://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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